[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @TrungTPhan Trung Phan Trung Phan posts on X about market cap, south park, toilet, bitcoin the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::945817135816654848/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +5.40% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::945817135816654848/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XXXX% - X Month XXX +54% - X Months XXX -XXXX% - X Year XXXXX +23% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::945817135816654848/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.55% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.63% - X Months XXXXXXX +0.79% - X Year XXXXXXX +1% ### CreatorRank: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::945817135816654848/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::945817135816654848/influence) --- **Social category influence** [stocks](/list/stocks) #1440 [finance](/list/finance) #1894 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) #263 [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) #5329 [countries](/list/countries) #6832 [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [market cap](/topic/market-cap) #6, [south park](/topic/south-park) #125, [toilet](/topic/toilet) #684, [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) 2.31%, [eagle](/topic/eagle) #22, [american eagle](/topic/american-eagle) #7, [sydney](/topic/sydney) #13, [$294m](/topic/$294m) 2.31%, [coldplay](/topic/coldplay) 1.73%, [bros](/topic/bros) #233 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@alexkehr](/creator/undefined) [@nathanlands](/creator/undefined) [@bfaviero](/creator/undefined) [@bclund](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@doodlestein](/creator/undefined) [@laurentsierra1](/creator/undefined) [@windycityjump23](/creator/undefined) [@theainfp](/creator/undefined) [@aprilmhill18](/creator/undefined) [@billspacman](/creator/undefined) [@kermitcapital](/creator/undefined) [@pianojukebox](/creator/undefined) [@randomrecruiter](/creator/undefined) [@thisismichael13](/creator/undefined) [@msmelchen](/creator/undefined) [@ceodhaval](/creator/undefined) [@mhirsch1414](/creator/undefined) [@capojacko16405](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Lululemon Athletica Inc (LULU)](/topic/$lulu) [Hertz Global Holdings, Inc Common Stock (HTZ)](/topic/hertz) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::945817135816654848/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Oracle hit a record market cap of $586B and Larry Ellison owns XX% of the company ($240B) making him 2nd richest person in the world. At the end 2010 Oracle valued at $87B and Ellison owned XX% of it ($24B). How did his ownership of Oracle increase over that span Since 2011 the company has spent $155B on buybacks mostly using free cash flow (with some debt) and reduced shares outstanding from over X billion to under X billion. Ellison didnt sell into the buyback program and increased his stake from XX% to XX% (he owned XX% of Oracle at its 1986 IPO). Depending on the pace of buybacks Ellison"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1933541915787735137) 2025-06-13 15:08:10 UTC 712.5K followers, 354.8K engagements "the Phillies live events team just rolled out the Coldplay Kiss Cam and the meme has officially peaked"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946377683899994586) 2025-07-19 01:12:56 UTC 713K followers, 52K engagements "South Park is locked in for Seaon XX with a new $1.5B streaming deal over X years with Paramount+ A new milestone for Trey Parker and Matt Stone that ranks up there with the time they showed up to the 2000 Oscar'sin designer women's dresses after taking LSD-laced sugar cubes. Parker was nominated for Best Song after writing "Blame Canada" (from the South Park film). He didn't want to perform so the pair asked Robin Williams to do it. And the legendary comedian did just as Stone and Parker who famously say they are "equal-opportunityoffenders" were coming down from acid high"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947677102188466316) 2025-07-22 15:16:21 UTC 712.9K followers, 108.1K engagements "How was corproate team night at the Coldplay concert Astronomer CEO:"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946030400956203478) 2025-07-18 02:12:57 UTC 712.8K followers, 93.3K engagements "The story of Jane Street getting banned from Indias stock market is a roller-coaster: the quant fund found a niche and incredibly lucrative strategy strategy made $4B+ profit in X years (when first pitched Jane Street internally found the idea counterintuitive unexpected and initially met with significant skepticism and incredulity) employees that discovered the trade were poached by competitor hedge fund Millenium they took the trading strategy with them to Millenium and the fund starts eating into Jane Streets profits on the trade Jane Street sues Millenium for stealing trade secrets during"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1942572584471781744) 2025-07-08 13:12:50 UTC 711.9K followers, 179.6K engagements "@BillSPACman litch-rally invented thr landing move"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947105469941911564) 2025-07-21 01:24:54 UTC 711.9K followers, XXX engagements "The scene in Her when Theodore finds out his AI girlfriend Samantha has cheated on him has aged incredibly well (and its all set in the year 2025). Theodore: Are you talking to anyone else Samantha: Yeah. Theodore: How many Samantha: 8316. Theodore (shook): Are you in love with anyone else Samantha: Ive been figuring out how to talk to you about this. Theodore (really shook): How many others. Samantha: XXX. Theodore (really really really shook): Wha- What are you talking about Thats insane"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945082088346341774) 2025-07-15 11:24:42 UTC 712.3K followers, 103.3K engagements "What your Salomon shoes are meant to see vs. what they actually see"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947651006789275739) 2025-07-22 13:32:40 UTC 713K followers, 38.5K engagements "Buzz Aldrins qualifications for the Apollo XX moon landing mission"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947104864481472978) 2025-07-21 01:22:29 UTC 713K followers, 63.8K engagements "If your CFO wears any of these shoes your CEO did not use corproate funds to buy tickets to a major concert to continue an undisclosed affair with the Head of HR"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946360815474380847) 2025-07-19 00:05:54 UTC 712.6K followers, 35.3K engagements "Amer Sports owns Salomon and Arcteryx legit performance brands hilariously co-opted for workplace. Relatedly Chip Wilson Lululemon founder and pioneer of performance clothes in office owns XX% of Amer. I wrote more on Lululemon founding story"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947653366852817177) 2025-07-22 13:42:02 UTC 712.9K followers, 12.1K engagements "South Park nailed the experience of trying a Japanese bidet toilet seat for the first time"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946940595403927915) 2025-07-20 14:29:45 UTC 712.9K followers, 423.4K engagements "South Park just agreed to a $1.5B deal over X years to stream on Paramount+. Might be the most valuable streaming show after previous deals with Hulu ($192m) and Warner Bros ($550m). Show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone get XX% of revenue due to one of the most lucrative clauses in TV history from their first contract. Heres the backstory. In 1995 Parker and Stone created an animated short called The Spirit of Christmas. It went viral and two years later Comedy Central offered them a 10-year deal for their pitch of what became South Park. The pair negotiated a fortuitous clause: they were"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947675036174979105) 2025-07-22 15:08:09 UTC 713K followers, 298.3K engagements "Speaking of Paramount showrunners getting a bag heres the creative journey of how Taylor Sheridan quit a failed acting career and wrote his first screenplay at age XX (Sicario) before going full TV mogul with Yellowstone:"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947678078014263355) 2025-07-22 15:20:14 UTC 712.9K followers, 12.3K engagements "With CBS cancelling The Late Show after XX years here is that time Chris Farley went to see David Letterman in 1996 with the greatest talk show entrance in the history of talk show entrances"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946053815884804388) 2025-07-18 03:46:00 UTC 713K followers, 8M engagements "The MythBusters team once covered a Ford Taurus in modelling clay and scooped out 1082 dimples to see if the aerodynamics of golf ball dimples could scale to a car. It worked: a dimpled Taurus was more fuel efficient than the standard one (to make sure the cars weighed the same the team put the same amount of clay in the trunk of the car on the non-dimpled tests). Across XXX episodes the Golf Dimple Car was one of their most surprising results. Just an absolute got damn classic and probably the most visually absurd of their experiments"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944551078189776922) 2025-07-14 00:14:39 UTC 712.6K followers, 221.8K engagements "How much longer can this Bitcoin rally last The Bitcoin rally:"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944666731525615970) 2025-07-14 07:54:13 UTC 712K followers, 75.5K engagements "South Parks season XX premiere was insane. Stayed fully true to equal-opportunity offenders. Jokes on NPR Trump Paramount Colbert and Epstein. Getting $1.5B streaming bag from Paramount+ two days before airing is wild timing and theyll have to update this Wikipedia page"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948267122544570688) 2025-07-24 06:20:53 UTC 712.6K followers, 4701 engagements "Former Apple engineer with design intel on why the Alarm Clock Snooze button looks the way it does"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1936204053610152419) 2025-06-20 23:26:33 UTC 712.6K followers, 532.7K engagements "American Eagle management doing everything it can to not be a staple in Costcos discount clothing section next to Eddie Bauer jeans. On that note I wrote on the economics behind Costcos $9B+ annual clothing business (not just them Kirkland sweats):"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948336765619568932) 2025-07-24 10:57:37 UTC 712.9K followers, 30.8K engagements "Man AI-generated videos are taking over YouTube. This Short of Baby Mistakenly Flies Plane was the 3rd most-watched on the platform last week with 130m views"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1940905807908110711) 2025-07-03 22:49:39 UTC 712.6K followers, 310.7K engagements "SCOOP: As part of its turnaround effort Intel has partnered with Sydney Sweeney on a new custom AI chip (SS-100). More details to come"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948372148583588188) 2025-07-24 13:18:13 UTC 712.9K followers, 362.8K engagements "Facebook is going to go crazy when they see these tweets next month"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1930718639004737743) 2025-06-05 20:09:29 UTC 712.9K followers, 4.8M engagements "someone used Veo3 to make Moses as a YouTuber live-streaming the Exodus"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1931741470991777840) 2025-06-08 15:53:51 UTC 712.9K followers, 1.6M engagements "Its XX years since the release of Wedding Crashers one of the top grossing R-Rated comedies ever. The Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn film made $290m on a $40m budget and had an all-time cameo: Will Ferrell as Chazz. Among the best of original comedy films from 2000s that probably wouldnt get greenlit today including Old School Anchorman 40-year Old Virgin Zoolander Superbad The Hangover Dodgeball Step Brothers Knocked Up and Tropic Thunder. THEY DONT MAKE EM LIKE THEY USED TO"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945117954938692033) 2025-07-15 13:47:13 UTC 712.9K followers, 4.2M engagements "Nvidia just became the first company to hit $X trillion market cap (and is now worth slightly more than Google and Meta combined)"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1942945312060162213) 2025-07-09 13:53:55 UTC 712.7K followers, 54.7K engagements "President Trump says Coca-Cola will use sugar cane (which would replace high-fructose corn syrup). Many know this as Mexican Coke but most Coke in Mexico also uses corn syrup. Only specifically labelled export of Mexican Coke (in glass bottle) uses sugar cane"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945623689875333405) 2025-07-16 23:16:50 UTC 712.9K followers, 85.5K engagements "Disneyland after selling someone X corn dogs X Diet Cokes a misting fan and plastic Mickey Mouse ears for $187"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948175248006021576) 2025-07-24 00:15:49 UTC 713K followers, 55.7K engagements "Strategy now worth $116B with a $67B pot of Bitcoin (owns X% of entire BTC supply). Wrote more on this wild bet here:"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943093370215370919) 2025-07-09 23:42:15 UTC 712.2K followers, 16.2K engagements "Vince Vaughn recently talked about why Hollywood stopped making good comedy films. He blames it on studios playing it safe and the obsession with creating films based on existing IP instead of the IP of just relatable life situations: a girl turning XX a person cutting school or be in a fraternity as an adult"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945121010254274844) 2025-07-15 13:59:22 UTC 712.6K followers, 1.6M engagements "On a related note I wrote about the time Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos took a startup demo for the Segway in 2000. They ripped it and gave a ton of business insights (including Jobs offering design help that was so good it would make you shit in your"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947444831556669943) 2025-07-21 23:53:24 UTC 713K followers, 14.2K engagements "the Astronomer CEO and HR Head scandal is a reminder that camera guys at live events are next-level talents"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946000888570712285) 2025-07-18 00:15:41 UTC 712.7K followers, 184.8K engagements "Aperol Spritz is the biggest scam drink ever. Imagine watered-down Fanta a wine cooler and some club sodafor $XX a glass. Go to any major European city (Prague Paris Barcelona Munich) and some tourist idiot is drinking Aperol Spritz believing its a local invention. Bro its Italian. Look I get: orange is an arresting color. Think Tang Sunny D or as mentioned Fanta. You get the drink in a wine glass with a slice of orange and a fancy draw. It looks like $XX but tastes $XXXX. Also the alcohol content is a joke. The Aperol liqueur is XX% and prosecco is XX% but it always gets way too watered"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1812816845692346513) 2024-07-15 11:49:51 UTC 712.6K followers, 771.6K engagements "They demod the smart toilet with a mock log: The system classifies stool into seven shapes and hardness types such as granular banana-shaped or liquid along with variations in surface texture and further assigns one of three color categories: ochre brown or dark brown. Stool quantity is categorized as high medium or low. The app displays this data allowing users to track frequency and condition via a calendar and receive personalized lifestyle advice based on trends in their bowel movements"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947082342247371018) 2025-07-20 23:53:00 UTC 713K followers, 33.5K engagements "No one: Range Rover turning their logo into a belt buckle:"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946366145801662776) 2025-07-19 00:27:05 UTC 711.9K followers, 29.2K engagements "interesting re-branding of literally a normal annual vacation"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1942306449268564013) 2025-07-07 19:35:18 UTC 711.9K followers, 63.1K engagements "What your Arc'teryx jacket is meant to see vs. what it actually sees"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1873049230748860588) 2024-12-28 16:51:50 UTC 712K followers, 301.3K engagements "Thats from Crichtons book Travels. Speaking of which I wrote on how two Priceline acquisitions in mid-2000s (totalling $294m) turned into Booking Holding the world's most valuable travel company ($170B+ market cap). Among the best tech deals ever:"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946554212357230706) 2025-07-19 12:54:24 UTC 713K followers, 39.2K engagements "Ive adopted the same routine to maximize daily productivity while working on the research app including: - resetting X user passsword - forwarding X emails - sending my co-founder XX awful product ideas"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1941668509085552829) 2025-07-06 01:20:21 UTC 712.8K followers, 21.6K engagements "The Simpsons vs. South Park on Japanese toilets"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947461080369992165) 2025-07-22 00:57:58 UTC 713K followers, 26.8K engagements "Monster Beverage is the top-performing stock in past XX years. A $1000 investment in 1994 would be worth $2000000 today (+200000% gain). Its partnership with Coca-Cola has been so smart: In 2015 Coca-Cola bought a XXXXX% stake for $2B They swapped drink portfolios: Monster took Coca-Colas energy drinks (Nos Relentless etc) while Coca-Cola took Monsters juices (Hansen Peace Tea etc) Monster became the only energy drink sold through Coca-Colas global distribution Per CNBC Coca-Cola now owns XX% of the $60B energy drink company (worth $12B for a gain of $10B on its initial investment). Monster"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1759305537987162209) 2024-02-18 19:55:01 UTC 712.1K followers, 533.1K engagements "Google search volume is up XX% and the stock has added $X trillion to its market cap in the past year since Boob Shirt Guy asked Sergey Brin about Woke Gemini while having a foot long Subway Cold Cut Trio for lunch"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948186527475110302) 2025-07-24 01:00:38 UTC 713K followers, 187.8K engagements "Herms has perfected the psychology of scarcity and demand. The CEO of the $250B French luxury giant says Herms creates desire by selling time. This concept of time means heritage craftsmanship and making customers wait. I wrote more"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1758912202059477183) 2024-02-17 17:52:02 UTC 712.4K followers, 1.2M engagements "Metas developer blog profiled Soham Parekh in 2021. Im crying lololol"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1940522785128038610) 2025-07-02 21:27:39 UTC 711.9K followers, 418.3K engagements "@randomrecruiter Intels climb back to the top commences"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948375913726431311) 2025-07-24 13:33:11 UTC 712.9K followers, 3808 engagements "Back in 2010 you could earn X BTC for simply passing a CAPTCHA test on the Bitcoin Faucet website. This remains the highest ROI time investment in the history of capitalism"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1927410227160191045) 2025-05-27 17:03:02 UTC 712.6K followers, 300.5K engagements "In mid-2000s Priceline bought two travel startups for $294m in one of the best tech deals ever. It turned into Booking Holdings the $170B online travel agency (OTA) giant. I wrote on the history and how it built an A/B testing machine to make it"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1936437192173494647) 2025-06-21 14:52:58 UTC 712.6K followers, 114.3K engagements "The Veo-generated vlog series of Greg The Stormtrooper is the best Star Wars content in ages: pissed about going to Endor (orders just came in from Vaders bitch ass) crash lands on Hoth (builds snowman while shot at) drinks something questionable at a Tatoonie bar"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1932101225195225456) 2025-06-09 15:43:23 UTC 712.9K followers, 1.3M engagements "Unofficial list of most delicious cuisines that werent originally from a region but invented after Columbian Exchange: Spaghetti/Pizza: Tomatoes (via Americas) came to Italy in 16th century and led to Spaghetti al Pomodoro and Pizza Margherita. Carnitas: Spanish colonizers brought pigs to New World which thrived and led to a future staple for my Chipotle Burrito Bowl lunch orders. Fries: Potaoes (via Americas) spread to Europe same time as tomatoes and led to French and Belgian version of fried sliced potatoes. Empanadas: Spanish colonizers also brought wheat to Americas and led to creation"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947146106187694459) 2025-07-21 04:06:22 UTC 712.9K followers, 88.7K engagements "Michael Crichton on the value of travelling"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946552820292796632) 2025-07-19 12:48:52 UTC 713K followers, 42.5K engagements "Hertz is using an AI-scanning system to find any dings on newly-returned rental cars: the system captures 1000s of high-res images when car enters and exits lot generates a damage report and sends to a human for review machine maker UVeye says it can detect 5x more damage than manual checks and 6x higher total value of damage captured The machine is currently at airports in Atlanta Charlotte Phoenix Tampa and Houston. While Hertz says only X% of cars scanned by UVeye have had billable damage customers that have been hit are really annoyed. Some of the damage is minuscule based on photos"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943504139339862224) 2025-07-11 02:54:30 UTC 712.9K followers, 264.7K engagements "dont make fun of Times XXX most important podcast list that doesnt include Joe Rogan until youve walked a mile in the authors shoes"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948231160875688258) 2025-07-24 03:57:59 UTC 713K followers, 42.4K engagements "@growing_daniel still running X months later with 593m viewisnane"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943095900185989348) 2025-07-09 23:52:18 UTC 712.3K followers, 12.9K engagements "American Eagle popping +22% after announcing a partnership with Sydney Sweeney is the efficient market at work"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948273156722171907) 2025-07-24 06:44:52 UTC 713K followers, 1.1M engagements "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert cost $100m a year to run (with XXX staff) and loss $40m. Asked Grok to do napkin math on production. It actually pencils out but the Network TV cost strucure is extinct when Joe Rogan is a two-person operation: Host ($15m): Colbert Writers ($15m): 10-20 on staff making $150k-200k Production Crew ($20m): 150+ making $100k Band & Guest Booking ($7m) Studio ($20m): Rental of Ed Sullivan Theatre Production & Marketing ($20m) Legal and admin etc ($3m) Macro trends all against Late Show TV productions: 1) Network TV down; 2) way more competition for eyeballs; 3)"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946567062505271675) 2025-07-19 13:45:27 UTC 712.6K followers, 77.2K engagements "One major takeaway of the Astronomer scandal is that everyone now knows the name of the CEO and Head of HR. But still no one knows the name of Coldplays drummer. A lesson in there"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947462455627813031) 2025-07-22 01:03:26 UTC 712.9K followers, 26.6K engagements "Priceline IPOd in 1999 at $10B. By 2004 it was at $1B. Then it bought X startups in next XX months (ActiveHotels Booking). They spent $294m and the merged entity became Booking Holding now worth $171B and the worlds largest travel co. Among the greatest tech deals ever"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1937198141956325689) 2025-06-23 17:16:43 UTC 712.4K followers, 146.9K engagements "Spent past hour explaining to my kid how we used to listen to on-demand music in a car: burning a CD with XX songs using tape adapter to connect portable CD player to stereo keeping CD player charged by using converter to plug into cigarette power outlet He very confused"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1942810246688432455) 2025-07-09 04:57:13 UTC 712.1K followers, 52.7K engagements "didnt realize how much we needed the J.K. Simmons character from Whiplash explaining how people treated AI in 2023 vs. in 2025"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944386092649553949) 2025-07-13 13:19:04 UTC 712.9K followers, 75.6K engagements "Astronomer CEO and HR Head just pulled off the greatest guerilla marketing stunt ever"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945997450357223427) 2025-07-18 00:02:01 UTC 712.2K followers, 54.8K engagements "The comment section of Channel 5s Hunter Biden interview is cooking"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947464186524799114) 2025-07-22 01:10:18 UTC 713K followers, 22.6K engagements "Let me get this straight you can buy a burrito on an interest-free instalment plan Thats right and were not even based in the Chipotle store. So you finance this by packaging the burrito instalment loans into Burrito CDO A which has part of Burrito CDO B and both get put into Burrito CDO C Yeah. The original loans are backed by burritos. Chicke. Pork. Carne Asada. Whatever. But Burrito CDO C is a synthetic Burrito CDO. A CDO of Burrito CDOs. Ok lets say we have an underlying pool of $10000 in burritos. How much money could be out there betting on instalment loans and your synthetic burrito"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1902833519258374252) 2025-03-20 21:23:58 UTC 712.6K followers, 6.8M engagements "Shane Gillis paid tribute to Norm MacDonald by doing this iconic 1998 ESPYs Charles Woodson joke"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945656405895389458) 2025-07-17 01:26:50 UTC 712.9K followers, 1.1M engagements "A theory Ive heard is all luxury/boutique hotels tried to differentiate the experience with shower settings (spa-like rainfall multi-contorls). This shower arms race led to design creep in lower-end hotels too and now no one can actually shower When you need instructions for a shower thats prob a tell things are effed"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946708352396063069) 2025-07-19 23:06:53 UTC 712.8K followers, 17.4K engagements "Interesting peice on Jane Streets sneaky retention tactic. The quant hedge fund which did $21B in revenue in 2024 has employees work with an obscure coding language called OCaml. Developed by French academics OCaml has a steep learning curve but maximizes productivity for its traders. In 2005 Jane Street re-wrote its core trading system with an OCaml fork OxCaml (more standard finance coding languages are C++ Go Java Python). The language for these internal tools are so obscure in finance community that Jane Street has relatively few restrictions on staff leaving the fund (similar hedge funds"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1939792347757519329) 2025-06-30 21:05:09 UTC 712.5K followers, 175.8K engagements "Accenture billing a Fortune XXX client $2m after a 22-year old newly grad consultant makes a 30-page slide deck on how to deploy AI across the organization"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947268648504111344) 2025-07-21 12:13:18 UTC 713K followers, 36.7K engagements "The research app team is looking to book similar cameraman for our annual pickleball and beer pong tournament. Please DM if have a connection"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946004122114945153) 2025-07-18 00:28:32 UTC 712.2K followers, 14.6K engagements "@bclund wow whats the discount Costco got there"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948176520075252129) 2025-07-24 00:20:52 UTC 712.9K followers, XXX engagements "Lee Kuan Yew: Air conditioning was a most important invention for us perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency.""  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943836424975134924) 2025-07-12 00:54:53 UTC 712.9K followers, 232.7K engagements "James Dyson dropped the tightest 7-minute product launch youll ever see and somehow found new ways to innovate a vacuum. The Dyson PencilVac FluffyCone is: worlds thinnest vacuum (38mm 1.8kg) has special cones so hair doesnt get stuck (unreal lol) new design so cleaner head can go right against walls (also up in cupboards and under sofas) 360-degree illumination so you can see all dirt powerful new motor entirely in handle (with new dispensing system) I know about this because my wife watches Dyson demo vids like they are Peak Steve Jobs Appe keynotes. She sent it and said we are definitely"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1926822698287497483) 2025-05-26 02:08:24 UTC 712.9K followers, 3M engagements "high-speed restaurant soup delivery could be an Olympic sport"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947441433616453801) 2025-07-21 23:39:54 UTC 713K followers, 64K engagements "After seeing Sydney Sweeneys ad campaign pump American Eagle stock the lowest-hanging fruit for ROI in corproate America is for her to join the investor group buying Hooters out of bankruptcy and becoming the face of the restaurant chain"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948399003680587817) 2025-07-24 15:04:56 UTC 713K followers, 96.7K engagements "Just checked Bitcoin and thought it went parabolic to $2911710271. Then realzied my VPN was set to Saigon and it was Vietnamese Dong"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1943084025142481300) 2025-07-09 23:05:07 UTC 712.9K followers, 122.4K engagements "@thisismichael13 thay looks like only ones releasing at launch"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948198741678436739) 2025-07-24 01:49:10 UTC 712.6K followers, XX engagements "an old 18th century English word that should probably make a comeback"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948024365737779622) 2025-07-23 14:16:15 UTC 713K followers, 56K engagements "Just bought 3x pairs of Nike Air Monarchs and 3x pairs of New Balance XXX for every member of research app team as a precautionary move"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946369041494655055) 2025-07-19 00:38:35 UTC 711.9K followers, 13.6K engagements "Lebron Bezos and Ken Griffin partying to Not Like Us in St. Tropez. Just the way Kendrick planned it"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947814229014417609) 2025-07-23 00:21:15 UTC 713K followers, 880.1K engagements "@MsMelChen if one person has strong feelings on atheltic leggingsis def Wilson"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947656055074570507) 2025-07-22 13:52:43 UTC 711.9K followers, XXX engagements "In 1981 Herms CEO Jean-Louis Dumas flew from Paris to London. He met actress Jane Birkin and they talked about bags. She wanted one that could hold more stuff and drew an idea on a napkin. Herms made a prototype Birkin Bag and it just sold for $10m at a Sothebys auction to a Japanese art collector (and is now the most expensive handbag a ever sold)"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1944201784106659966) 2025-07-13 01:06:41 UTC 712.7K followers, 75.5K engagements "South Park getting its own South Park Controversies Wikipedia page is too good"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947681729659171185) 2025-07-22 15:34:45 UTC 712.9K followers, 29.3K engagements "The Toto Washlet toilet seat bidet is in XX% of all Japanese households. In America it's only in X% of homes but the numbers are rising fast per NYT: X in X renovating homeowners in US are adding bidet toilet seats Toto's profits for its American house business is up 8x in the past X years A slow start was also the norm in Japan: when Toto launched the first bidet washlets in the 1980s consumers weren't crazy for the washing drying and heated seat functions (one of the greatest human innovations ever). Adaptedfrom bidet-like devices in US medical equipment the first Toto seat cost $2k"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1946938481609175268) 2025-07-20 14:21:21 UTC 713K followers, 724.9K engagements "reminder to greet your old man for Fathers Day"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1934275643853988270) 2025-06-15 15:43:45 UTC 712K followers, 93K engagements "Warner Bros. Discovery just re-branded its steaming service Max back to HBO Max. This caps off probably the funniest series of inexplicable logo changes in corporate history"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1922669292929024017) 2025-05-14 15:04:15 UTC 712.9K followers, 3.5M engagements "@AdamSinger Coldplay cultural revival after a decade on ice is incrdible to see"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1947098749689585891) 2025-07-21 00:58:11 UTC 712.3K followers, XXX engagements "I wrote about Booking Holdings. How two deals in mid-2000s ($294m total) created largest travel company in the world ($170B market cap). How the organization pioneered A/B testing. How the stupid only X rooms left scarcity hack gets me evey time"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1938645512003166370) 2025-06-27 17:08:03 UTC 712.5K followers, 50.9K engagements "CEO of Astronomer walking into the office today"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1945861901264785561) 2025-07-17 15:03:24 UTC 712.9K followers, 355.2K engagements "Scotts skill stacking essay completely changed my perspective on work"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1924853512481202309) 2025-05-20 15:43:34 UTC 712.9K followers, 844.9K engagements "Now that Sydney has branched into AI collaborations the reseach app team is very interested in collaborating. Please DM if connected. We dont have Intels budget but own multiple pairs of American Eagle jeans and polos and will shill like crazy"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1948374005267734685) 2025-07-24 13:25:36 UTC 712.9K followers, 15.5K engagements "Carl Sagan on why books are humans greatest invention: What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions binding together people who never knew each other citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1941984823528349785) 2025-07-06 22:17:16 UTC 712.6K followers, 243.3K engagements "Online AI detector says Declaration of Independence is XXXXX% written by AI. Which chatbot did Founding Fathers use"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1925235630394810849) 2025-05-21 17:01:58 UTC 712.1K followers, 990.1K engagements "someone turned the cast of Friends cover to Asian Friends and its sending me that Ross looks the exact same"  [@TrungTPhan](/creator/x/TrungTPhan) on [X](/post/tweet/1940005108923891930) 2025-07-01 11:10:36 UTC 713K followers, 1.2M engagements
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @grok @alexkehr @nathanlands @bfaviero @bclund @elonmusk @doodlestein @laurentsierra1 @windycityjump23 @theainfp @aprilmhill18 @billspacman @kermitcapital @pianojukebox @randomrecruiter @thisismichael13 @msmelchen @ceodhaval @mhirsch1414 @capojacko16405
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"Oracle hit a record market cap of $586B and Larry Ellison owns XX% of the company ($240B) making him 2nd richest person in the world. At the end 2010 Oracle valued at $87B and Ellison owned XX% of it ($24B). How did his ownership of Oracle increase over that span Since 2011 the company has spent $155B on buybacks mostly using free cash flow (with some debt) and reduced shares outstanding from over X billion to under X billion. Ellison didnt sell into the buyback program and increased his stake from XX% to XX% (he owned XX% of Oracle at its 1986 IPO). Depending on the pace of buybacks Ellison"
@TrungTPhan on X 2025-06-13 15:08:10 UTC 712.5K followers, 354.8K engagements
"the Phillies live events team just rolled out the Coldplay Kiss Cam and the meme has officially peaked" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-19 01:12:56 UTC 713K followers, 52K engagements
"South Park is locked in for Seaon XX with a new $1.5B streaming deal over X years with Paramount+ A new milestone for Trey Parker and Matt Stone that ranks up there with the time they showed up to the 2000 Oscar'sin designer women's dresses after taking LSD-laced sugar cubes. Parker was nominated for Best Song after writing "Blame Canada" (from the South Park film). He didn't want to perform so the pair asked Robin Williams to do it. And the legendary comedian did just as Stone and Parker who famously say they are "equal-opportunityoffenders" were coming down from acid high" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-22 15:16:21 UTC 712.9K followers, 108.1K engagements
"How was corproate team night at the Coldplay concert Astronomer CEO:" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-18 02:12:57 UTC 712.8K followers, 93.3K engagements
"The story of Jane Street getting banned from Indias stock market is a roller-coaster: the quant fund found a niche and incredibly lucrative strategy strategy made $4B+ profit in X years (when first pitched Jane Street internally found the idea counterintuitive unexpected and initially met with significant skepticism and incredulity) employees that discovered the trade were poached by competitor hedge fund Millenium they took the trading strategy with them to Millenium and the fund starts eating into Jane Streets profits on the trade Jane Street sues Millenium for stealing trade secrets during" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-08 13:12:50 UTC 711.9K followers, 179.6K engagements
"@BillSPACman litch-rally invented thr landing move" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-21 01:24:54 UTC 711.9K followers, XXX engagements
"The scene in Her when Theodore finds out his AI girlfriend Samantha has cheated on him has aged incredibly well (and its all set in the year 2025). Theodore: Are you talking to anyone else Samantha: Yeah. Theodore: How many Samantha: 8316. Theodore (shook): Are you in love with anyone else Samantha: Ive been figuring out how to talk to you about this. Theodore (really shook): How many others. Samantha: XXX. Theodore (really really really shook): Wha- What are you talking about Thats insane" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-15 11:24:42 UTC 712.3K followers, 103.3K engagements
"What your Salomon shoes are meant to see vs. what they actually see" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-22 13:32:40 UTC 713K followers, 38.5K engagements
"Buzz Aldrins qualifications for the Apollo XX moon landing mission" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-21 01:22:29 UTC 713K followers, 63.8K engagements
"If your CFO wears any of these shoes your CEO did not use corproate funds to buy tickets to a major concert to continue an undisclosed affair with the Head of HR" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-19 00:05:54 UTC 712.6K followers, 35.3K engagements
"Amer Sports owns Salomon and Arcteryx legit performance brands hilariously co-opted for workplace. Relatedly Chip Wilson Lululemon founder and pioneer of performance clothes in office owns XX% of Amer. I wrote more on Lululemon founding story" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-22 13:42:02 UTC 712.9K followers, 12.1K engagements
"South Park nailed the experience of trying a Japanese bidet toilet seat for the first time" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-20 14:29:45 UTC 712.9K followers, 423.4K engagements
"South Park just agreed to a $1.5B deal over X years to stream on Paramount+. Might be the most valuable streaming show after previous deals with Hulu ($192m) and Warner Bros ($550m). Show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone get XX% of revenue due to one of the most lucrative clauses in TV history from their first contract. Heres the backstory. In 1995 Parker and Stone created an animated short called The Spirit of Christmas. It went viral and two years later Comedy Central offered them a 10-year deal for their pitch of what became South Park. The pair negotiated a fortuitous clause: they were" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-22 15:08:09 UTC 713K followers, 298.3K engagements
"Speaking of Paramount showrunners getting a bag heres the creative journey of how Taylor Sheridan quit a failed acting career and wrote his first screenplay at age XX (Sicario) before going full TV mogul with Yellowstone:" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-22 15:20:14 UTC 712.9K followers, 12.3K engagements
"With CBS cancelling The Late Show after XX years here is that time Chris Farley went to see David Letterman in 1996 with the greatest talk show entrance in the history of talk show entrances" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-18 03:46:00 UTC 713K followers, 8M engagements
"The MythBusters team once covered a Ford Taurus in modelling clay and scooped out 1082 dimples to see if the aerodynamics of golf ball dimples could scale to a car. It worked: a dimpled Taurus was more fuel efficient than the standard one (to make sure the cars weighed the same the team put the same amount of clay in the trunk of the car on the non-dimpled tests). Across XXX episodes the Golf Dimple Car was one of their most surprising results. Just an absolute got damn classic and probably the most visually absurd of their experiments" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-14 00:14:39 UTC 712.6K followers, 221.8K engagements
"How much longer can this Bitcoin rally last The Bitcoin rally:" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-14 07:54:13 UTC 712K followers, 75.5K engagements
"South Parks season XX premiere was insane. Stayed fully true to equal-opportunity offenders. Jokes on NPR Trump Paramount Colbert and Epstein. Getting $1.5B streaming bag from Paramount+ two days before airing is wild timing and theyll have to update this Wikipedia page" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 06:20:53 UTC 712.6K followers, 4701 engagements
"Former Apple engineer with design intel on why the Alarm Clock Snooze button looks the way it does" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-06-20 23:26:33 UTC 712.6K followers, 532.7K engagements
"American Eagle management doing everything it can to not be a staple in Costcos discount clothing section next to Eddie Bauer jeans. On that note I wrote on the economics behind Costcos $9B+ annual clothing business (not just them Kirkland sweats):" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 10:57:37 UTC 712.9K followers, 30.8K engagements
"Man AI-generated videos are taking over YouTube. This Short of Baby Mistakenly Flies Plane was the 3rd most-watched on the platform last week with 130m views" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-03 22:49:39 UTC 712.6K followers, 310.7K engagements
"SCOOP: As part of its turnaround effort Intel has partnered with Sydney Sweeney on a new custom AI chip (SS-100). More details to come" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 13:18:13 UTC 712.9K followers, 362.8K engagements
"Facebook is going to go crazy when they see these tweets next month" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-06-05 20:09:29 UTC 712.9K followers, 4.8M engagements
"someone used Veo3 to make Moses as a YouTuber live-streaming the Exodus" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-06-08 15:53:51 UTC 712.9K followers, 1.6M engagements
"Its XX years since the release of Wedding Crashers one of the top grossing R-Rated comedies ever. The Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn film made $290m on a $40m budget and had an all-time cameo: Will Ferrell as Chazz. Among the best of original comedy films from 2000s that probably wouldnt get greenlit today including Old School Anchorman 40-year Old Virgin Zoolander Superbad The Hangover Dodgeball Step Brothers Knocked Up and Tropic Thunder. THEY DONT MAKE EM LIKE THEY USED TO" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-15 13:47:13 UTC 712.9K followers, 4.2M engagements
"Nvidia just became the first company to hit $X trillion market cap (and is now worth slightly more than Google and Meta combined)" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-09 13:53:55 UTC 712.7K followers, 54.7K engagements
"President Trump says Coca-Cola will use sugar cane (which would replace high-fructose corn syrup). Many know this as Mexican Coke but most Coke in Mexico also uses corn syrup. Only specifically labelled export of Mexican Coke (in glass bottle) uses sugar cane" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-16 23:16:50 UTC 712.9K followers, 85.5K engagements
"Disneyland after selling someone X corn dogs X Diet Cokes a misting fan and plastic Mickey Mouse ears for $187" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 00:15:49 UTC 713K followers, 55.7K engagements
"Strategy now worth $116B with a $67B pot of Bitcoin (owns X% of entire BTC supply). Wrote more on this wild bet here:" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-09 23:42:15 UTC 712.2K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Vince Vaughn recently talked about why Hollywood stopped making good comedy films. He blames it on studios playing it safe and the obsession with creating films based on existing IP instead of the IP of just relatable life situations: a girl turning XX a person cutting school or be in a fraternity as an adult" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-15 13:59:22 UTC 712.6K followers, 1.6M engagements
"On a related note I wrote about the time Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos took a startup demo for the Segway in 2000. They ripped it and gave a ton of business insights (including Jobs offering design help that was so good it would make you shit in your" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-21 23:53:24 UTC 713K followers, 14.2K engagements
"the Astronomer CEO and HR Head scandal is a reminder that camera guys at live events are next-level talents" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-18 00:15:41 UTC 712.7K followers, 184.8K engagements
"Aperol Spritz is the biggest scam drink ever. Imagine watered-down Fanta a wine cooler and some club sodafor $XX a glass. Go to any major European city (Prague Paris Barcelona Munich) and some tourist idiot is drinking Aperol Spritz believing its a local invention. Bro its Italian. Look I get: orange is an arresting color. Think Tang Sunny D or as mentioned Fanta. You get the drink in a wine glass with a slice of orange and a fancy draw. It looks like $XX but tastes $XXXX. Also the alcohol content is a joke. The Aperol liqueur is XX% and prosecco is XX% but it always gets way too watered" @TrungTPhan on X 2024-07-15 11:49:51 UTC 712.6K followers, 771.6K engagements
"They demod the smart toilet with a mock log: The system classifies stool into seven shapes and hardness types such as granular banana-shaped or liquid along with variations in surface texture and further assigns one of three color categories: ochre brown or dark brown. Stool quantity is categorized as high medium or low. The app displays this data allowing users to track frequency and condition via a calendar and receive personalized lifestyle advice based on trends in their bowel movements" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-20 23:53:00 UTC 713K followers, 33.5K engagements
"No one: Range Rover turning their logo into a belt buckle:" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-19 00:27:05 UTC 711.9K followers, 29.2K engagements
"interesting re-branding of literally a normal annual vacation" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-07 19:35:18 UTC 711.9K followers, 63.1K engagements
"What your Arc'teryx jacket is meant to see vs. what it actually sees" @TrungTPhan on X 2024-12-28 16:51:50 UTC 712K followers, 301.3K engagements
"Thats from Crichtons book Travels. Speaking of which I wrote on how two Priceline acquisitions in mid-2000s (totalling $294m) turned into Booking Holding the world's most valuable travel company ($170B+ market cap). Among the best tech deals ever:" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-19 12:54:24 UTC 713K followers, 39.2K engagements
"Ive adopted the same routine to maximize daily productivity while working on the research app including: - resetting X user passsword - forwarding X emails - sending my co-founder XX awful product ideas" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-06 01:20:21 UTC 712.8K followers, 21.6K engagements
"The Simpsons vs. South Park on Japanese toilets" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-22 00:57:58 UTC 713K followers, 26.8K engagements
"Monster Beverage is the top-performing stock in past XX years. A $1000 investment in 1994 would be worth $2000000 today (+200000% gain). Its partnership with Coca-Cola has been so smart: In 2015 Coca-Cola bought a XXXXX% stake for $2B They swapped drink portfolios: Monster took Coca-Colas energy drinks (Nos Relentless etc) while Coca-Cola took Monsters juices (Hansen Peace Tea etc) Monster became the only energy drink sold through Coca-Colas global distribution Per CNBC Coca-Cola now owns XX% of the $60B energy drink company (worth $12B for a gain of $10B on its initial investment). Monster" @TrungTPhan on X 2024-02-18 19:55:01 UTC 712.1K followers, 533.1K engagements
"Google search volume is up XX% and the stock has added $X trillion to its market cap in the past year since Boob Shirt Guy asked Sergey Brin about Woke Gemini while having a foot long Subway Cold Cut Trio for lunch" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 01:00:38 UTC 713K followers, 187.8K engagements
"Herms has perfected the psychology of scarcity and demand. The CEO of the $250B French luxury giant says Herms creates desire by selling time. This concept of time means heritage craftsmanship and making customers wait. I wrote more" @TrungTPhan on X 2024-02-17 17:52:02 UTC 712.4K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Metas developer blog profiled Soham Parekh in 2021. Im crying lololol" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-02 21:27:39 UTC 711.9K followers, 418.3K engagements
"@randomrecruiter Intels climb back to the top commences" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 13:33:11 UTC 712.9K followers, 3808 engagements
"Back in 2010 you could earn X BTC for simply passing a CAPTCHA test on the Bitcoin Faucet website. This remains the highest ROI time investment in the history of capitalism" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-05-27 17:03:02 UTC 712.6K followers, 300.5K engagements
"In mid-2000s Priceline bought two travel startups for $294m in one of the best tech deals ever. It turned into Booking Holdings the $170B online travel agency (OTA) giant. I wrote on the history and how it built an A/B testing machine to make it" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-06-21 14:52:58 UTC 712.6K followers, 114.3K engagements
"The Veo-generated vlog series of Greg The Stormtrooper is the best Star Wars content in ages: pissed about going to Endor (orders just came in from Vaders bitch ass) crash lands on Hoth (builds snowman while shot at) drinks something questionable at a Tatoonie bar" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-06-09 15:43:23 UTC 712.9K followers, 1.3M engagements
"Unofficial list of most delicious cuisines that werent originally from a region but invented after Columbian Exchange: Spaghetti/Pizza: Tomatoes (via Americas) came to Italy in 16th century and led to Spaghetti al Pomodoro and Pizza Margherita. Carnitas: Spanish colonizers brought pigs to New World which thrived and led to a future staple for my Chipotle Burrito Bowl lunch orders. Fries: Potaoes (via Americas) spread to Europe same time as tomatoes and led to French and Belgian version of fried sliced potatoes. Empanadas: Spanish colonizers also brought wheat to Americas and led to creation" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-21 04:06:22 UTC 712.9K followers, 88.7K engagements
"Michael Crichton on the value of travelling" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-19 12:48:52 UTC 713K followers, 42.5K engagements
"Hertz is using an AI-scanning system to find any dings on newly-returned rental cars: the system captures 1000s of high-res images when car enters and exits lot generates a damage report and sends to a human for review machine maker UVeye says it can detect 5x more damage than manual checks and 6x higher total value of damage captured The machine is currently at airports in Atlanta Charlotte Phoenix Tampa and Houston. While Hertz says only X% of cars scanned by UVeye have had billable damage customers that have been hit are really annoyed. Some of the damage is minuscule based on photos" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-11 02:54:30 UTC 712.9K followers, 264.7K engagements
"dont make fun of Times XXX most important podcast list that doesnt include Joe Rogan until youve walked a mile in the authors shoes" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 03:57:59 UTC 713K followers, 42.4K engagements
"@growing_daniel still running X months later with 593m viewisnane" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-09 23:52:18 UTC 712.3K followers, 12.9K engagements
"American Eagle popping +22% after announcing a partnership with Sydney Sweeney is the efficient market at work" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 06:44:52 UTC 713K followers, 1.1M engagements
"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert cost $100m a year to run (with XXX staff) and loss $40m. Asked Grok to do napkin math on production. It actually pencils out but the Network TV cost strucure is extinct when Joe Rogan is a two-person operation: Host ($15m): Colbert Writers ($15m): 10-20 on staff making $150k-200k Production Crew ($20m): 150+ making $100k Band & Guest Booking ($7m) Studio ($20m): Rental of Ed Sullivan Theatre Production & Marketing ($20m) Legal and admin etc ($3m) Macro trends all against Late Show TV productions: 1) Network TV down; 2) way more competition for eyeballs; 3)" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-19 13:45:27 UTC 712.6K followers, 77.2K engagements
"One major takeaway of the Astronomer scandal is that everyone now knows the name of the CEO and Head of HR. But still no one knows the name of Coldplays drummer. A lesson in there" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-22 01:03:26 UTC 712.9K followers, 26.6K engagements
"Priceline IPOd in 1999 at $10B. By 2004 it was at $1B. Then it bought X startups in next XX months (ActiveHotels Booking). They spent $294m and the merged entity became Booking Holding now worth $171B and the worlds largest travel co. Among the greatest tech deals ever" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-06-23 17:16:43 UTC 712.4K followers, 146.9K engagements
"Spent past hour explaining to my kid how we used to listen to on-demand music in a car: burning a CD with XX songs using tape adapter to connect portable CD player to stereo keeping CD player charged by using converter to plug into cigarette power outlet He very confused" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-09 04:57:13 UTC 712.1K followers, 52.7K engagements
"didnt realize how much we needed the J.K. Simmons character from Whiplash explaining how people treated AI in 2023 vs. in 2025" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-13 13:19:04 UTC 712.9K followers, 75.6K engagements
"Astronomer CEO and HR Head just pulled off the greatest guerilla marketing stunt ever" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-18 00:02:01 UTC 712.2K followers, 54.8K engagements
"The comment section of Channel 5s Hunter Biden interview is cooking" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-22 01:10:18 UTC 713K followers, 22.6K engagements
"Let me get this straight you can buy a burrito on an interest-free instalment plan Thats right and were not even based in the Chipotle store. So you finance this by packaging the burrito instalment loans into Burrito CDO A which has part of Burrito CDO B and both get put into Burrito CDO C Yeah. The original loans are backed by burritos. Chicke. Pork. Carne Asada. Whatever. But Burrito CDO C is a synthetic Burrito CDO. A CDO of Burrito CDOs. Ok lets say we have an underlying pool of $10000 in burritos. How much money could be out there betting on instalment loans and your synthetic burrito" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-03-20 21:23:58 UTC 712.6K followers, 6.8M engagements
"Shane Gillis paid tribute to Norm MacDonald by doing this iconic 1998 ESPYs Charles Woodson joke" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-17 01:26:50 UTC 712.9K followers, 1.1M engagements
"A theory Ive heard is all luxury/boutique hotels tried to differentiate the experience with shower settings (spa-like rainfall multi-contorls). This shower arms race led to design creep in lower-end hotels too and now no one can actually shower When you need instructions for a shower thats prob a tell things are effed" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-19 23:06:53 UTC 712.8K followers, 17.4K engagements
"Interesting peice on Jane Streets sneaky retention tactic. The quant hedge fund which did $21B in revenue in 2024 has employees work with an obscure coding language called OCaml. Developed by French academics OCaml has a steep learning curve but maximizes productivity for its traders. In 2005 Jane Street re-wrote its core trading system with an OCaml fork OxCaml (more standard finance coding languages are C++ Go Java Python). The language for these internal tools are so obscure in finance community that Jane Street has relatively few restrictions on staff leaving the fund (similar hedge funds" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-06-30 21:05:09 UTC 712.5K followers, 175.8K engagements
"Accenture billing a Fortune XXX client $2m after a 22-year old newly grad consultant makes a 30-page slide deck on how to deploy AI across the organization" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-21 12:13:18 UTC 713K followers, 36.7K engagements
"The research app team is looking to book similar cameraman for our annual pickleball and beer pong tournament. Please DM if have a connection" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-18 00:28:32 UTC 712.2K followers, 14.6K engagements
"@bclund wow whats the discount Costco got there" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 00:20:52 UTC 712.9K followers, XXX engagements
"Lee Kuan Yew: Air conditioning was a most important invention for us perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-12 00:54:53 UTC 712.9K followers, 232.7K engagements
"James Dyson dropped the tightest 7-minute product launch youll ever see and somehow found new ways to innovate a vacuum. The Dyson PencilVac FluffyCone is: worlds thinnest vacuum (38mm 1.8kg) has special cones so hair doesnt get stuck (unreal lol) new design so cleaner head can go right against walls (also up in cupboards and under sofas) 360-degree illumination so you can see all dirt powerful new motor entirely in handle (with new dispensing system) I know about this because my wife watches Dyson demo vids like they are Peak Steve Jobs Appe keynotes. She sent it and said we are definitely" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-05-26 02:08:24 UTC 712.9K followers, 3M engagements
"high-speed restaurant soup delivery could be an Olympic sport" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-21 23:39:54 UTC 713K followers, 64K engagements
"After seeing Sydney Sweeneys ad campaign pump American Eagle stock the lowest-hanging fruit for ROI in corproate America is for her to join the investor group buying Hooters out of bankruptcy and becoming the face of the restaurant chain" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 15:04:56 UTC 713K followers, 96.7K engagements
"Just checked Bitcoin and thought it went parabolic to $2911710271. Then realzied my VPN was set to Saigon and it was Vietnamese Dong" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-09 23:05:07 UTC 712.9K followers, 122.4K engagements
"@thisismichael13 thay looks like only ones releasing at launch" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 01:49:10 UTC 712.6K followers, XX engagements
"an old 18th century English word that should probably make a comeback" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-23 14:16:15 UTC 713K followers, 56K engagements
"Just bought 3x pairs of Nike Air Monarchs and 3x pairs of New Balance XXX for every member of research app team as a precautionary move" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-19 00:38:35 UTC 711.9K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Lebron Bezos and Ken Griffin partying to Not Like Us in St. Tropez. Just the way Kendrick planned it" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-23 00:21:15 UTC 713K followers, 880.1K engagements
"@MsMelChen if one person has strong feelings on atheltic leggingsis def Wilson" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-22 13:52:43 UTC 711.9K followers, XXX engagements
"In 1981 Herms CEO Jean-Louis Dumas flew from Paris to London. He met actress Jane Birkin and they talked about bags. She wanted one that could hold more stuff and drew an idea on a napkin. Herms made a prototype Birkin Bag and it just sold for $10m at a Sothebys auction to a Japanese art collector (and is now the most expensive handbag a ever sold)" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-13 01:06:41 UTC 712.7K followers, 75.5K engagements
"South Park getting its own South Park Controversies Wikipedia page is too good" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-22 15:34:45 UTC 712.9K followers, 29.3K engagements
"The Toto Washlet toilet seat bidet is in XX% of all Japanese households. In America it's only in X% of homes but the numbers are rising fast per NYT: X in X renovating homeowners in US are adding bidet toilet seats Toto's profits for its American house business is up 8x in the past X years A slow start was also the norm in Japan: when Toto launched the first bidet washlets in the 1980s consumers weren't crazy for the washing drying and heated seat functions (one of the greatest human innovations ever). Adaptedfrom bidet-like devices in US medical equipment the first Toto seat cost $2k" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-20 14:21:21 UTC 713K followers, 724.9K engagements
"reminder to greet your old man for Fathers Day" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-06-15 15:43:45 UTC 712K followers, 93K engagements
"Warner Bros. Discovery just re-branded its steaming service Max back to HBO Max. This caps off probably the funniest series of inexplicable logo changes in corporate history" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-05-14 15:04:15 UTC 712.9K followers, 3.5M engagements
"@AdamSinger Coldplay cultural revival after a decade on ice is incrdible to see" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-21 00:58:11 UTC 712.3K followers, XXX engagements
"I wrote about Booking Holdings. How two deals in mid-2000s ($294m total) created largest travel company in the world ($170B market cap). How the organization pioneered A/B testing. How the stupid only X rooms left scarcity hack gets me evey time" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-06-27 17:08:03 UTC 712.5K followers, 50.9K engagements
"CEO of Astronomer walking into the office today" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-17 15:03:24 UTC 712.9K followers, 355.2K engagements
"Scotts skill stacking essay completely changed my perspective on work" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-05-20 15:43:34 UTC 712.9K followers, 844.9K engagements
"Now that Sydney has branched into AI collaborations the reseach app team is very interested in collaborating. Please DM if connected. We dont have Intels budget but own multiple pairs of American Eagle jeans and polos and will shill like crazy" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-24 13:25:36 UTC 712.9K followers, 15.5K engagements
"Carl Sagan on why books are humans greatest invention: What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions binding together people who never knew each other citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-06 22:17:16 UTC 712.6K followers, 243.3K engagements
"Online AI detector says Declaration of Independence is XXXXX% written by AI. Which chatbot did Founding Fathers use" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-05-21 17:01:58 UTC 712.1K followers, 990.1K engagements
"someone turned the cast of Friends cover to Asian Friends and its sending me that Ross looks the exact same" @TrungTPhan on X 2025-07-01 11:10:36 UTC 713K followers, 1.2M engagements